Word: dreamings
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...salesman for himself and his vision of the American dream, he was also a master peddler of many products, whose makers were as loyal to Harvey as his listeners were. A skit from the 1984-85 season of Saturday Night Live had Harvey (played by Rich Hall) compulsively peppering his news items with sponsor names. The man remained unapologetic. "Some days," he told Larry King in 1988, "the best news in the broadcast is the commercial. You can keep your natural teeth all your natural life! There is a glove that doesn't wear out! There is a car battery...
...elevated train in Brooklyn, Friedkin and D’Antoni “spitballed” the idea of a very different car chase, in which a driver pursued a man in a metro car.When the two went to the transit authority to assess the plausibility of this dream, the Movie God stepped in yet again. Asking for permission to film a train crash in an elevated train system that in over half a century had never seen an accident, the two were gravely told by the supervisor that allowing it would lose him his job. As Friedkin...
...queer supporter of Adams who donated to his campaign—told Just Out that his devastation sprung from the fact that Adams “was going to be the one to destigmatize gay people in positions of power.” That hope is now a dream, dashed and deferred...
...Spirit of Apollo” sounded like the wet dream of music bloggers and Hype Machine addicts—take a sample of hip-hop and indie rock’s current royalty, sprinkle in some musical legends, add a solid production team, and put them all together on one album. Unfortunately, N.A.S.A., the DJ duo behind the album, fails to live up to the extraordinary potential of their project.Sam “Squeak E. Clean” Spiegel and Ze “DJ Zegon” Gonzales named their collaboration N.A.S.A.—which stands...
...open discussion on issues related to sexual orientation.According to Navarro, the show’s proposal laid out three ways it hopes to accomplish the grant’s requirement that it promote open debate about issues of sexuality. Throughout the theatrical narrative that accompanies three scenes—Dream, Nightmare, and Awake—the 2009 production team plans to incorporate allusions to the BGLT community. “Essentially by incorporating contradicting gender normatives and gender reversal roles, and possibly a drag character in the show, [Eleganza] would stimulate discussion,” Navarro says. Although Navarro insists...